1st Edition

War Comics A Postcolonial Perspective

By Jeanne-Marie Viljoen Copyright 2021
232 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem of representing trauma when language seems inadequate to describe our experiences and how the visual... Read more

Chapter 1: What is ‘Invisible’ Violence?

Chapter 2: Depicting ‘Invisible’ Violence in Graphic Narrative Form

Chapter 3: Exploring the ‘Invisible’ Violence of the Khan Younis Massacre in Footnotes in Gaza

Chapter 4: Exploring the ‘Invisible’ Violence of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre in Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story

Chapter 5: Applying the Five Frame Method for Exploring ‘Invisible’ Violence to more Aesthetic Forms

Biography

Jeanne-Marie Viljoen is an academic in the field of Cultural & Literary Studies at the University of South Australia. Her abiding interest in exploring how communication about difficult experiences can occur through art in contexts where language cannot capture all we want to say, has lead her to focus primarily on non-fictional, visual narratives. Living and working in contested states with violent histories such as Apartheid South Africa, North Cyprus & Australia throughout her life drives her engagement with the postcolonial world.